Eagle (Extensible Adaptable Generalized Logic Engine) is an implementation of the
Tcl scripting language for the
Common Language Runtime (CLR). It is designed to be a universal scripting solution for any CLS based language.
Joe Mistachkin, the creator of Eagle, sits down with me at Lang.NET 2009…

John Rose is a virtual machine expert who's been working on the Java Virtual Machine for several years. He's part of the team that is adding multi-language support to the JVM,
specifically, dynamic language support. How does the multi-dynamic-language support mechanism work, exactly, inside the…

Lang.NET Symposium 2009 was held on Microsoft's campus (make sure you
watch the talks, which are available for your viewing pleasure). We were of course there and conducted several interviews with some of programming language design's brightest thinkers.Here,
Erik Meijer and Philip Wadler…

Jason Olson is a programming language evangelist in addition to his duties as a managed (.NET) tools evangelist. You know him from
C9. He's a long time Niner and has always been passionate about languages. I've known Jason for a long time and it's great to see him take his passionate intelligence…

Lang.NET Symposium 2009 was held on Microsoft's campus (make sure you
watch the talks, which are available for your viewing pleasure). We were of course there and conducted several interviews with some of programming language design's brightest thinkers.Here, language design master
Gilad Bracha…

The
Eiffel programming language is an object-oriented language that is based on a fixed set of powerful principles like Design by Contract and Command-Query Separation. It's a very powerful language that has impacted the evolution of the more popular general
purpose OO languages such as Java and…

Lars Bak is a virtual machine master. He and team have created a Javascript VM, V8, that takes Javascript syntax and produces optimized machine code directly. The result is very performant execution of Javascript. How does V8 work, exactly? What are the
basic design decisions that have gone into…

Lang.NET Symposium 2009 was held on Microsoft's campus (make sure you
watch the talks, which are available for your viewing pleasure). We were of course there and conducted several interviews with some of programming language design's brightest thinkers. Here, the great Anders Hejlsberg, father…

Harry Pierson, Program Manager of IronPython, ran this year's Lang.NET Symposium held on Microsoft's campus (make sure you
watch the talks, which are available for your viewing pleasure). We were of course there and conducted several interviews with some of programming language design's brightest…